Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-08-19
Communicated
WITCH HOLLOW. Aug. 10, 1887.


Mr.. Editor IA fellow feeling makSS
us wondrous kind" aud am tempted tol
take up my Quill to explain Aster'sks
"startling adventure or rather experience"
10 his benefit, a. also the benefit OF all
other young men who, like him, imblbe
too freely of the Glowing bowl" asst"
your "eIperience" was neither more nor
less than an attack Of the jim Jams, vul-
carly called 10y tho medical fraternity
deIirium iremens. Oh no, "Ast.," you need
not deny drinking anything, for the fact
that Won took your dog along on 4 court
ing expedition proves that you were not
oompos menhs, aud stronger and indispnta'
BILE proof il afforded In the faot that your
"hors, stamped at flies occasionally" al
though by yonr own statement 1t must
have been along towards midnight. We
would not DO afraid to wager half our
farm that your lady friends knew while
in your society that you was beastly drunk
and made you 60 home long before you
desired. The gigantic hand and enormous
fingers, which your disordered brain and
distorted imagination pictured, was only a
shadow or prophetic warning Of the pow
or the great hand Of the curse Of drinking
too much is gaining on you and before
you are aware Of II you will see snakes in
your boots, lions in your bed and hyenas
and other hideous animals will sit on your
breast and make night hdeous with their
bowls and threatening to devour you
You chad 'em bad" Asst. you did, indeed,
or You never conld have uniointed your
noble dogs neck IN your drunken frenzy,
nor would you have choked him until
foam ran from his mouth and his eyes
popped ont Of his head as you evidently
did. Your falling off your horse and snor-
ing beside graveyard is not such great
matter, but the way your madness mani
tested itself in your actions toward your
dog is fair evidence that You had better
either reform or buy better grade OF
whiskey. should suggest that you do
both. First, would Qf were you, Ast.)
begin gradually to drink little better
grade. I don't think your system. in its
present condition, could stand so great a
change either way. Try it for two weeks
on whIskey, such as can be bought In or
binary bar rooms for twenty-five cents
pint, and increase the price as much as
Ave cents per pint each fortnight thereaf-
ter until You have reached that article
which is used for medical purposes, and
then reform entirely. at enc time knew
a man who began just as you did, Ast.' to
see strange things at grave yards and such
places. He never killed his dog, but he
kept on until he could see animals enough
to make Barnum die of cOyetousness, and
he did not have to 20 20 graveyards to see
them either. Stranger still, he could see
worse things than you did, Asst, in broad
daylight in his own house. That man
stopped his drinking mean whisKey and
for twenty years has lived . sober life, and,
tells me, can visit graveyards at all times
Of night without seeing anything except
COMMISSIONERS.
am sorry for you, Asst, and deeply sym
pathize with you, but am quite sure that
IL YOU will stay sober for six weeks you
can 20 into any graveyard and sleep with
out ha wing your slumbers disturbed At
least, Asst, ifyou wiIl drink don't put such
"tame" stuff in the paper. Rip Van Win
kle got scared and didn't "come to" for
twenty years. Until you can come mp to
this, Asst, you have only gone through
ordinary experiences and no good can pos
sibly come from printing your experience
except to Brighten other drunken men or a
few silly fools.
Goodbye, Ast.,
A DIsBRLIEyKR.